Tools and Automation Engineer

Summary

Be part of the iOS Device QE team, focused on testing firmware and ensuring ultra-high quality for Apple’s next generation human interface devices. You will be a motivated individual who cares and thinks about user experience, able to collaborate with other engineers to problem solve and understand the basics of firmware.

Description

- Have a real passion for quality, enjoy breaking things through creative testing

- Thrive in uncertain, early prototype stages of a project when not all features are working yet, and enjoy putting energy into identifying/classifying issues as a way to improve quality

- Enjoying learning and teaching

- Have skill in building new processes or fixing old processes to improve quality of Apple products and efficiency of team

- Experience with embedded systems, microcontrollers and sensors

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Responsibilities

• Understanding microcontroller based embedded systems, including algorithms
• Working to guarantee that Multitouch system consistently achieve Apple quality bar
• Partnering with a development team to quickly understand an architecture, break it into functional parts, come up with a plan to test/validate, and identify and target weaknesses
• Devising and building test fixtures, building tools and authoring automated scripts in Python
• Executing manual and automated test plans on early prototypes
• Documentation of test cases and code used for test execution
• Coming up with ideas for custom tools and methods to exercise firmware features
• Tracking performance, reporting results to management, driving issues to closure
• Partnering with Human Factors / User Study Group to validate the customer experience and learn about how humans use new input devices

Minimum Qualifications

• BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science or related degrees
• 3+ years of relevant industry experience
• Experience leveraging AI-powered development tools to streamline daily workflows, accelerate coding and debugging, creating test frameworks and improve overall code quality and testing methodologies

Preferred Qualifications

• MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science or related degrees
• Experience writing and/or testing firmware, building embedded systems
• Knowledge of Mac systems and MacOS/iOS or UNIX variant
• Track record of shipping great consumer products
• Testing automation using Python or similar
• Use of hardware debugging tools
• USB and Bluetooth CATC, protocol analyzer, logic analyzer, oscilloscope
• Familiarity with C/C++ or object-oriented programming
• Test tool development
• Continuous integration systems
• Algorithm analysis and validation